Do you have certain ingredients that you simply cannot resist? The type of ingredient you see in the markets or supermarket and just HAVE to have? I’m pretty terrible when it comes to things like that, so I tend to end up in a lot of cases with ingredients that have no immediate need or [...]
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Wow… if you are reading this, that actually means that it worked! You might have wondered where I went to the last couple of days but I have been very busy behind the scenes with changing over all my websites (and there are six in total) from one host to the next. My friend and [...]
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Poaching… doesn’t that also mean illegal taking of plants and animals? Why then is a technique very often used in the kitchen also called poaching? It’s weird isn’t it? I just realized that as soon as I started writing this post… I do seem to be on a poaching roll lately as this is the [...]
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I was with Meeta at the market in Germany when I spotted some quince. I had seen them somewhere before (on the internet!) but they are not a fruit you can easily find here in Holland, so I took them with me from Weimar to Holland. They keep forever anyway, so there was not a [...]
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Let me start by confessing that this pear has not been shot in the proper season for poached pears… I shot it in the middle of summer as an experiment in lighting techniques.. I was very disappointed by the looks of my pear once poached and I will be doing this again with a dark [...]
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Our few golden days of sunshine seem to have vanished and have been replaced by storm, rain and thunder. In fact while I am writing this I can hear the thunder rumbling in the distance… I’m always amazed at how quickly the weather patterns can change. A few days ago it was t-shirt weather and [...]
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Once upon a time there was this girl that had all these pretty pictures in her head. Beautiful images of wonderfully styled desserts, simple yet effective and made with just the flick of a spoon or in the blink of an eye. But sometimes, every so often, the evil witch came by and made sure [...]
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I stare upwards at the blue sky… The sounds in the gardens around us seem muffled and quiet. The heat has slowed everyone down. It’s simply too warm to run around like a headless chicken and even the kids next door seem to make less noise then usual. While I lay in the cool grass [...]
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It’s been quite a rollercoaster week this week. Due to the passing of my mother in law we’ve not been home much, going between my father in laws house and our house. We stayed there for dinner most of the days. To begin with there are so many things to arrange for a funeral that [...]
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When I went out for grocery shopping the other day I “bumped” into plums. Now I know it is not the season for plums yet so in terms of sustainability and all that I should have left them but they were smiling at me!! And who am I to disappoint those delicious looking plums when [...]
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I am not sure how the temperatures are in the rest of Europe but here in Holland it has reached rather high numbers. Yesterday was the worst with 37°C (98°F) and while today is a little less hot; it’s still in it’s thirties… Not even Italy was that hot! And the problem here is that [...]
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